By David Tuller, DrPH When I visited Melbourne in March of last year, I heard a lot about Dr Don Lewis, a local physician beloved by those with ME, or €œchronic fatigue,€ as Australian patients, scientists and clinicians routinely called the illness, to my dismay. At the time, Dr Lewis ...

By David Tuller, DrPH People who know little or nothing about the illness or cluster of illnesses variously called myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome, CFS/ME, and ME/CFS can’t seem to stop writing stupid and ill-informed stories about it. And Professor Michael Sharpe seems to blame “Americans”--rather than his own disastrous ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Some Australian members of the GET/CBT ideological brigades have published yet more nonsense and drivel about "graded exercise therapy" as a treatment for ME/CFS, or what they are still calling "chronic fatigue syndrome." The article, simply called "Chronic fatigue syndrome: graded exercise therapy," is in a ...

By David Tuller, DrPH In the last few years, the Journal of Health Psychology has provided a valuable platform for researchers, academics, and other experts who have challenged the claims made in the discredited PACE trial and other research from the CBT/GET ideological brigades. Last month, the journal published a ...

By David Tuller, DrPH Same-Day Update: I forwarded our response to Dr Brown's letter (see below) to Dr Fiona Godlee, BMJ's editorial director. I also cc-d others on my e-mail to Dr Godlee. Here's what I wrote: Dear Fiona-- Dr Brown, the editor-in-chief of Archives of Disease in Childhood, sent ...